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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Amelia "Mia" Adair
Slytherin Sixth Year
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Leigh Upstead
Hufflepuff Fifth Year  x11
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Originally Posted by Tazenhani  Had it not been for the knocking, Sabel never would have heard the kid's voice on the other side of the door. That's simply what happened when you put a wooden slab between concentration and meekness. Or was it something else, Sabel tilted his head to try and place the tone of the words that drifted through his office to him. They were familiar, sparking recognition ---
The second voice he hadn't been expecting, and it startled him so bad he ended up knocking the ink pot all over the documents he'd been stewing over. The black stain got a disdainful look, but it was short-lived. His feet were already moving, his mind clicking into the quiet calm he knew so well as he snagged his coat from the peg near the door.
Pulling the barrier open as he tugged his arm through one sleeve and the other, Sabel didn't even pause at the sight of the two kids. If they were quick, they'd move out of his way and fall in step and take up explanations and questions on the way. He did, however, spare them the courtesy of a once over, first and foremost to make sure they were both fully intact. Which, besides nerves spilling all over his seating area, they seemed to be.
They also got a raised eyebrow in turn. "Why, is it always you two?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir The problem was, with stuff that was happening, accompanied by all the panic and worry that he wasn't able to suppress, Toby was torn between wanting company (Soph's company) and wanting to be alone (alone hiding under his bed). The conflicting needs all but tore him in two and, just like everything else today, they made his head hurt.
Luckily, he could delay dwelling on that for a little longer, because seconds had barely passed before Dakest was there, opening the office door and pulling on a jacket. Good, that was good, that meant he was wasting no time in going to help.
Toby let go of Soph's hand automatically, not wishing to get in trouble for inappropriate hand-holding or something, and quickly sidestepped out of the way. He was just about to reiterate what had happened when the professor's words caught him off guard, and he blinked, totally misunderstanding the words.
"But... I... no, I... we didn't..." Toby shook his head, and extracted his wand from its holster again so he could wring it between his hands or otherwise fidget as he followed after Dakest. He was intent on insisting that it hadn't been them that had hurt or scared anyone - Hippogriff or human - before remembering that he had been right there, beside the Hippogriffs. Oh. Oh Merlin. What if it had been HIM that had scared them? What if this was HIS fault? The (misinterpreted) notion threw him off guard, and so when he spoke again, his words were all sorts of jumbled. "... Henry ran off and I wasn't allowed to follow him and then we couldn't get in but we heard screams and m-... Thom- Professor Thompson and Culloden told us to get you and the Headmistress and explain and please can you help them?"
All the words had come in such a frenzied outpouring that seemed to make perfect sense to the Hufflepuff, though he left out a lot of details and added more unnecessary ones because his mind seemed to be racing faster than usual. Really, it was lucky Soph was here; she was always a lot better with words and explaining things, even if she did like to yell them at a high volume from time to time. When the door opened, Sophie was relieved to see that Dakest had his coat and he was all ready to go, and she broke her hand-hold with Tobes and fell in step on the other side of the professor from Tobes without even giving it a conscious thought. As they strode in a swift pace down the corridor, she opened her mouth to protest Dakest's apparent accusation, but she let Tobes talk instead - she looked over at him with worry creases in her forehead and sad eyes that seemed as though they'd start welling up with tears all over again at any moment.
Tobes' explanation was jumbled and she threw him a deeply sympathetic look - she knew his emotions and uncooperative brain functions were getting the best of him now - before launching into her own follow-up of what the Hufflepuff had said, "What Tobes means is Javy 'n Culloden were leading the Cartographer's Club meeting which s'where we map the grounds and stuff and when we were in the playpens with the hippogriffs mapping stuff there the hippogriffs got SUPER spooked by something and they got all scared and crazy on us and one escaped from the pen and Javy," she wasn't even realizing she was calling him by his first name, she was just speaking entirely too fast for her brain to process her words, "sent a patronus to the groundskeeper to catch the hippogriff before it GOT to the forest line because it was headed toward his hut and when we went after them to try to catch up we could hear the screams and shouts of the groundskeeper coming from the forest so we knew the groundskeeper wasn't able to catch the hippogriff in time and we tried to go IN after them to help but it wouldn't let us in, only Javy 'n Culloden. It was me 'n Tobes, and two other prefects. Wouldn't let any of us in even though we're of age, and they wanted us to come get you for back-up and Javy said there wasn't much time. Like, word-for-WORD that's what he said, like he thought something really bad was happening or going to happen or..."
She was calming down just a little now, her sentences less slurred and hurried, but she was still very visibly on high alert as they went along and she couldn't finish her sentence. Self-awareness that her voice was clearly giving away how fearful she was made her swallow her words, and awareness that Tobes' dad was in there made her realize her own showing of fear was only going to make the situation worse.
But... Dakest needed to know everything that had gone on, didn't he? He NEEDED to know how serious it was and that they really should've been running again. Could she quicken their pace and work them into a run? She was gonna try.
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